Dear Chris Bell:

Remember when some of the great women of Texas wrote a letter on your behalf questioning your primary opponent's commitment to women's issues based on his federal funding votes from the 1970s?

I disagreed with the letter at the time, but I have never disagreed that the letter was effective.

Please call upon those great women of Texas one more time.

At lunch today, I ran into a nice woman who is a long-time Democrat, a member of Planned Parenthood, and a Kinky supporter. We need to remind the women of Texas that Kinky is no friend of women's rights.

Please remind Texas women that Kinky thinks women's rights are a joke. When asked about women's rights, Kinky says "I'm not pro-life, and I'm not pro-choice. I'm pro-football!" Even CNN's anchor interviewing Kinky felt compelled to say, "Now that's evasive, man, that's evasive!" And it's not a laughing matter to the many Texans who consider this a serious issue. Texas imposes some of the nation's harshest restrictions on women's reproductive rights, and this freedom of choice is the right of the people, and not the business of the government. Please remind the women of Texas who stands with them and who won't say where he stands.

Please remind Texas women that the National Organization of Women named Kinky "Male Chauvinist Pig of the Year" for his sexist lyrics. Remind them that Kinky thinks it's funny to write songs that call women "uppity" and "harpies" because "women’s liberation is going to their heads."

Chris, you need to call upon those great women of Texas once again.

I had no idea he wrote such things.

*shakes head sadly*

You uppity women I don’t understand
Why you gotta go and try to act like a man,
But before you make your weekly visit to the shrink
You’d better occupy the kitchen, liberate the sink....

Mean-hearted harpies are breaking all the laws
Tearing up their girdles and a-burning up their bras,
Now the air is dirty and the sex is clean
And your coffee makes my hair turn green.

So damn emancipated in your mind and your body,
Gonna have to cancel all your lessons in karate.
If you can’t love a male chauvinist
You’d better cross me off your shopping list.

Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed
That’s what I to my baby said,
Women’s liberation is a-going to your head,
Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed.



Let me be clear about a few things so we can get them out of the way:

1. I support Kinky's right to say this, but I wish self-identified feminists weren't ignoring the Democrat to get Kinky on the ballot,
2. I understand it's supposed to be funny even though I don't find it amusing (nor do I enjoy Larry the Cable Guy, but that's just me),
3. I agree people would judge the same lyrics more harshly if an inner-city rapper wrote them, and
4. I know many people don't find the lyrics misogynistic, but I'll defer to NOW's judgment on that.

I could only find this funny if he was mocking male chauvanist pigs.

If he won't openly admonish men who think this way / come out and say that this song was meant to mock those barbaric, obsolete men, then I don't trust him at all... and no one else should, either.

Nothing has changed in his career. He was one in 84 and he's one now.

Can't believe that woman from Planned Parenthood didn't know that. I sure hope she tells other women too.

Sonia